Veritas NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5240
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance disk drives
    3.  
      Appliance control panel
    4.  
      Appliance rear panel
    5.  
      Storage shelf disk drives
    6.  
      Storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      Storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      Cables
    9.  
      About IPMI configuration
    10.  
      Product documentation
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    3.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    4.  
      Enabling SAS tape-out functionality
    5.  
      Determining rack locations
    6.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Verifying SAS-3 cable length
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration on a 52xx and 5330
  3. Installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    4.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    5.  
      Attaching the storage shelf bezel
    6.  
      Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    8.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
    9.  
      Connecting the network cables
    10.  
      Connecting the power cords
    11.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    12.  
      Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    13.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  4. Appendix A. Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Preparing the appliance
    3.  
      Removing the appliance cover
    4.  
      Installing the Expansion Storage Kit components
    5.  
      Reinstalling the appliance into the rack
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Determining rack locations
    8.  
      Installing the storage shelf rails
    9.  
      Installing the storage shelf or shelves into a rack
    10.  
      Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
    11.  
      Connecting one storage shelf to an appliance
    12.  
      Connecting two storage shelves to an appliance
    13.  
      Connecting three storage shelves to an appliance
    14.  
      Connecting four storage shelves to an appliance
    15.  
      Connecting the network cables
    16.  
      Connecting the power cords
    17.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
  5. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
    3.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    4.  
      Installing storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    5. Recabling to connect additional shelves
      1.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has one operating shelf
      2.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has two operating shelves
      3.  
        Connecting a storage shelf to an appliance that already has three operating shelves
  6. Appendix C. Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    2.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
  7.  
    Index

Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu

The following procedure describes how to add new storage shelf disk space to a NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

To add new storage shelf disk space to a NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu

  1. Use PuTTY to start an SSH session to access the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

    Note:

    You can also connect a laptop, keyboard and monitor, or KVM to the appliance to access the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

  2. Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu. The Main_Menu prompt appears.
  3. Go to the Monitor view as follows:

    Type Monitor and press Enter.

  4. Type Hardware ShowHealth and press Enter. Verify that the new storage devices appear. If the new storage devices do not appear, check the cable connections and make sure that the power is on.
  5. At the prompt, type return to return to the Main menu.
  6. Perform a scan as follows:

    • At the Main_Menu prompt, enter Manage and press Enter.

    • Enter Storage and press Enter.

    • Enter Scan and press Enter.

    The scan takes a couple of minutes to complete.

  7. Navigate to the Storage view.

    From the Storage menu, enter Add and press Enter. It displays the disks that are in a New Available state and can be added. Copy a disk ID that is displayed.

  8. At the prompt, enter add < disk ID > and press Enter. < disk ID > is the disk ID that you copied. Repeat step 7 and 8 to add each disk ID that is displayed.
  9. View the available storage space as follows:

    • Navigate to the Storage menu.

    • At the prompt, enter Show Disk and press Enter. The status of the newly added disks is displayed as In Use and space in the Unallocated column is the disk space available for the new disk.